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CS 171: VisualizationHanspeter [email protected]

CS 171: VisualizationHanspeter [email protected]

Yahoo Finance, NY Times, Map of the Market

To convey information through visual representations

Why?

Information Explosion

The Industrial Revolution of Data

Joe Hellerstein, UC Berkeley

Matthew Ericson, NY Times

“It is things that make us smart.”

Donald Norman

Visualization

• Helps us think

• Reduces load on working memory

• Offloads cognition

• Uses the power of human perception

CS 171 Goals

• Principles of effective visualizations

• Gathering data (Python)

• Implementing interactive visualizations (Processing)

• Programming homework and a final project

Samir Paul & Jesse Rader

Jason Gao

Naveen Sinha

Karen Hansen

Xiao He

cs171.org

• Data and Image Models• Visual Perception• Cognitive Principles• Interaction Techniques• Color Encoding• Visualization Software Design• Designing 2D Graphs• Maps & Google Earth• Trees and Networks• Higher-dimensional Data• Text Visualization• Images and Video• Scientific Visualization• Life Science Visualization• Visualization & The Arts